The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-16

ver He entered the service of the company on
receiving and honorable discharge from the reg
ular army and has been very elncieot anu
faithful servant of the company. 1t IS under
stood that Charles Stimson now at Cincinnati.
will succeed the deceased as chief clerk
The State Railroad Commission OF Illinois
have decided that there is nothing In the suit
instituted against the L., E. & ST. Ia. Airline by
Bluford Wilson to compel the company TO Sc
lect q majority of it's directors from citizens OF
Illinois. The commission say that the law Is
unconstitutional, and has been q dead letter
since it was enacted
Before the management of the Lake Eris e
Western have been long in Indianapolis ana had
an opportunity to well look the field over they,
without doubt. will be convinced that the small
rental they receive from the H. N. A. & c. COM
pany for ward and depot facilities does not COM
pensate the L. E. & w. for the inconveniencs
they subjected to- and lose Of business
well.
Climbing upon moving trains over the Union
tracks and over the Belt road is still INDUCED in
too freely by both men and boys Police and
train crows seem unable to keep them off, Were
the police for some months to give this matter
attention it would be stopped. But arresting
two or three when a person chances to get in
jured in this hazardous practice has but little
effect
pointed division freight agent of the road, with
headquarters at Lafayette His territory ex-
tends from Indianapolis to Seneca. Grin Nc
Mutt succeeds Mr.. Stimson as general agent at
Lafayette. Mr.. Stimson is wide awake, genial
fellow and will make friends and increase the
business OF the Big Four in the territory as
signed to him.
The Lake Erie & Western is proving a wide
awake competitor for st-bound business out
of Indian apolis They strike at the pet
business of the Bee-line and have within the
last few days carried handsome per cent OF
Kingans & Co.'S. export provisions the Bee
lines extremity see ms to have been the L. E. &
VS. opportunity. The Bee-line could not fur
nish Merchants ispatch cars. and the L. IL. q
w. those
and run them in here, and loaded them with
Kingans business. much to the surprise of the
freight agents of the Decline, who have been of
the opinion that only their road could touch this
lass of traffic.
District passenger agent Jsnowitz, of the
Northern Pacific, has been notified that on
Sunday next there would be shortening up of
running time Of of their through trains
each way. Between St. Paul and Portland,
westward, the trip will be made between the
two cities in three days and three hours,
shortening of twenty-one hours compared
with the present time of their fastest train. The
new fast trains will stop only at the important
stations on the road The trip from st. Paul to
Helena. which now requires forty-slx hours, Will
be made in forty hours. The east-bound trip
will be shortened seventeen hours.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Baltimore & Ohio road is to be held to day,
and there is much speculation in railroad circles
to what action will be taken. An 1uGianap-
oils railroad official. who is we'll posted usually
in the affairs of the B. & o. through friends in
that company's employ, expresses the opinion it
is generally supposed that Mr.. Samuel Spencer
will be elected president. that Vice president
King will resign. and that c. K. Lord, the gen
eral passenger agent, will become one of the
vice-presidents It IS said that the annual re-
port of the board of directors will show in
crease in gross earnings for the year of So. 200.
600, and also expenses increased to So. 063, 600.
leaving Sis, 900 increase in the net earnings
There several important questions to be
settled at the meeting which may have a direct
bearing on the future policy of the great cor
pOratiOu.